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Slightly more than 100,000 people in 3,867,271 km^2 of the 3 northern territories. (Just under half of Canada by area, bigger than India) It's going to be very
by FigBug 13y ago
Slightly more than 100,000 people in 3,867,271 km^2 of the 3 northern territories. (Just under half of Canada by area, bigger than India) It's going to be very hard to assert sovereignty when it's such a large area to monitor with so few people. For example a German weather station build in Labrador in 1943 wasn't found until the 1980s. Who knows what other countries are already doing in Canada's north.
- saym 13y agoLink for the intrigued: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Station_Kurt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Station_Kurt
- troymc 13y agoThese days we have remote sensing satellites, plus sophisticated software to analyze their data, so it would be quite a bit more difficult to do something big and go unnoticed.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoIf you rely on non-visible spectrum, its even easier. People and running equipment are going to stand out.
- stekoz 13y agoThere is a reason why Geographic Information Systems (GIS) were created in Canada back in the 1970.
- bsullivan01 13y agoCanada can be the next USA, they just need around 100 million people to start. How about handing out a few acres for the brave souls?:-)
- grecy 13y agoSure, come up here to the Yukon, the government still gives away land up here. As a plus, -40 is fun.
- vacri 13y agoMonitoring a couple of choke points is significantly easier than maintaining detailed surveys of all land masses. And you could probably hide a weather station on a tanker for a while as well :)